Venditoris: Beware of Sellers & Scams

There seems to be no end to these spam YANL emails.
Here’s yet another one from my Befactorial, MIKEBEAN or Mr Frank Bello in Poland, Mexico or Benin. Read it and laugh, but learn…it ain’t real - he just wants your $125 up front and then a means to engage you and me and bleed [...]

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Can the scammers get any more despicable than the 419 scam?
Yes, they certainly can!
Witness the latest one to visit our InBox before getting displayed and tagged below for the world to view and search engines to find (love the light of day) as a prime example of an email scam “Hook” letter. See and hopefully [...]

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Now here’s a really optimistic email pitch to nobody but arriving in my InBox today.
It is clearly a variant on YANL, but is, I believe, a really sad commentary on the state to which some amateur scammers will sink to scrabble for money. I am almost willing to send him some money just so he [...]

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Now comes a letter (I call them hook letters) from Mrs Douglas who is in a hospital in Spain. Yet she has two different email addresses, neither in Spain.
It’s not from Nigeria (in everything but spirit)
Think it’s a little fishy? The 15 million us dollars are attractive.
The “jewish” addition is a good pitch, too; new [...]

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And the sob story goes on, this time from Libya.
Isn’t that somewhere near Nigeria physically?
It certainly seems so in spirit and scam.
(BTW: I am addressed as “Dearest Friend” in this one. That’s quite a step up from ‘Hey, Sucker”. But still my email address didn’t show up, so I can only surmise that I am [...]

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